En af de største overraskelser ved Game Awards var annonceringen af Perfect Dark. Som bliver udviklet af Microsoft studiet The Initiative, som blev grundlagt tilbage i 2018.
Deres første spil bliver Perfect Dark, men det er mere en genfortolkning af den klassiske serie fremfor en regulær fortsættelse, og i en ny video fortæller udviklerne mere om spillet. En af dem er Game Director Dan Neuburger, der siger:
"There really isn't a game out there that's hitting that sort of blockbuster secret agent vision. So, when I found out that we were reinventing the franchise of Perfect Dark, I was very excited. To take something that... it's been so long since the first installment and sort of rethink what that could be and how we bring that into the modern era is a really interesting problem to solve.
Things were very limited back when the first Perfect Dark came out. In the way they could express a secret agent, both in gameplay and in narrative. And us, without those limitations, ideas just started sparkling. We wanted to create a world that people would be excited to come back to. Something that was unique and had it's own flavor. And that's sort of where we came to the idea of Eco Scifi.
We are leaning very heavily on, "What is a secret agent?" and there's a lot of gameplay diversity that comes into that, and we aren't shying away from that. We've been sharpening our vision of what our game is and figuring out what is going to make it unique, what's really going to make it stand out, and what's really going to make it fun.
I feel like now we actually have the horsepower to go and make this vision that we have for this game come true, and I can't wait to get it in front of players."
Du kan se videoen nedenfor, hvor The Initiative også forklarer, hvordan deres studie opstod, hvad der vil gøre Perfect Dark anerledes i forhold til andre first person shooters, og hvordan de vil prøve at levere en dragende historie.
